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So Rare Fox Trot
Billy Cotton's Orchestral You're here, You're there-F.T...Billy Cotton's Orchestra
9185 The Valeta
Lily of Laguna--Barn Dance
9141. On the Avenue-Selection
Billy Merrin's Band ..Billy Merrin's Band Jay Wilbur's Band
9146 My Cabin of Dreams F.T....Dick Robertson's Orchestra
Till the Clock strikes three-F,T.
9148 Dixon Hits No. 16 9152 Yours and Mine-FT.
For You-Quick Step 9156 Sandy's Happy Home
9157 Sweet Adeline
A Little bit of Heaven
9161.. Gipsy Violin
9153
Dick Robertson's Orchestra ..Reginald Dixon Brian Lawrence's Orchestra .Brian Lawrence's Orchestra .Sandy Powell
The Organ, the Monkey and me
Moon at Sea
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I
Have Just
Come Back From SHANGHAI
I
N Shanghai, cockpit
of the East, where I arrived just after the
first evacuation of white wo-
By
men to Hongkong and Man-Michael
la, there now reigns a strange stillness and stagna- tion.
In May the great city was the scene of booming business. Ships plied their way up and down the Whangpoo, bringing manufactured goods from alt over the world for the 400;000,- 000 Chinese, and leaving with tea and cotton and other. pro- ducts.
In luxurious offices wealthy
Hongkong Hotel brokers and merchants reaped
Stubbs Rd.
Garage
BIRTH
Tel. 27778-9
HILLS.At Kowloon Hospital; on February 13, 1938, to Constance, wife of Stanley E. Hills, a daughter.
DEATH
XAVIER-At his residence No. 1, Liberty Avenue, Kowloon, on February 13, 1938, Daniel Paulo Xavier, aged 32. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. 14: Monday, February (Canton, Macao and Shanghai papers please copy)..
on
WEDDING
The forthcoming wedding is an- eldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. M. H. Esminil, of the H.K. Sharebrokers' Association
nounced of A. R. H. Esmail,
Building,
to
the benefit. Their wives drove about in limousines, for you do not walk in Shanghai. Night" clubs and places of entertain- ment were crowded with gay throngs.
Then the first shots were heard.
Killanin
who has been "Daily Mail' Special Envoy at the War Front in Southern China.
LADY, SHALL WE DANCE-
NEW RHYTHM,
NEW STEPS?
Asks* Jack Payne,
The Famous Dance Band Leader
a fortune walling for the man
THERE is
or woman who can think out something new in dance music.
New rhythm, new steps-that- is the urgent need of the modern ballroom.
For years the waltz, the foxtrot, and the quick-step have been the mainstays of dancing programmes, and will probably remain so for many. years to come.
That is all to the good. These are dances firmly established in public favour, and it is idle to contemplate replacing them,
What we need is a dance that will make a vital contrast to those three, Foreign vessels no longer took away tea, but under armed escort small man was affected first. Something, if you like, that will began removing the white The cessation of communications shock us with its essential newness.
and the standstill of trade Way to Riches
women,
Some seized Soon, there were none left but wrought havoc. Russian cabaret girls and others their few remaining dollars and left to seek fortune elsewhere. who could ill afford to leave.
As the white women were Some struggled on only to throw
Chinese taken away
coolie themselves into the rushing families poured in from outside. river. Efforts were made
at
IF you can think out such
rhythm, if you can devise new steps to It, and--this is most im portent of all-if you can persuade the pubile to take up, you will make a fortune.
who
because it was a rollicking comedy"
number.
6011~
very
variety defles
Man, You've Had analysis. There
+1
to find If the fighting has moved to
Very few people realise the extent them accommodation and food. another quarter, this stagnation of the modern dance music industry. Nothing could stop them from of business and the feeling of in this country alone something over 10,000,000 dance records are sold hopelessness persist. entering.
The big business men who every year, and on each record a re- composer number is played the have been able to stand the royalty is paid. Every time a dance
These numbers, which may well be Frightened
described as the cong hits of 1037, THEY arrived on foot, strain of the hold-up of, trade celves a copyright fee.
Billy Hill
of "The Last
must have made well over £250,000 by cart, and by bout in remain optimistic. They go to
£40,000 each Round-Up
in profits to their composera and and Proprietor of H. M. H. their thousands till nearly a their offices in the morning now in royalties on five of his songs, publishers--and they are still
Slabel Wayas
composed b Esmail and Sons of China million roamed the streets hunt- from force of habit.
"Ramona," "Who Made Little Boyet their Miss Cherito
They meet at the club
Blue?" and "Little Guevarra, daughter of Mr. anding for a window-sill or over- Mrs. Jose Guevarra, of Manila. hanging eave under which they luncheon and discuss the future.
might spend the night.
They meet again in the evening The
None of them know what and discuss the future. was happening or why they had they lean against club bars they come. They knew that they trim their sails according to were frightened, and that was what they feel will be best..
When I left, the majority MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938.
all.
"All this time foreign business seemed to sympathise with men tried to carry on. The Japan-but it is a case of one WHO'LL GAMBLE
day China, the next Japan. A ¿fickle, unhappy lot with ON PEACE? Six months or a year ago, hand, and Japan on the other, enormous stakes in a foreign perhaps more than that, people is a typical instance of this in- land which is the scene of an in high places were predicting competence in diplomacy. Or is undeclared war.
more sinister? a naval race in 1938. Very few it something listened to the warning. But in Are there powers or leaders in Wives Return
Gracie Fields Thongkong Telegraph.
.Gracie Fields
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factor a Busy Day," has already received, it of success common to all of them. said, more than £250,000 In They have made, and are making. royalties on her songs.
monty because they have "caught on. It sounds easy money, doesn't it? Many other numbers as melodious, not. There is no as full of rhythm, sentiment, and Belleve me, it primrose path to success in this dance humour, as these, have failed com- music business. There are no hard pletely. and fast rules to guide you. Made £250,000
The history of the foxtrot, best known of all modern ballroom dances, serves to show how illogical and per- plexing public taste can be. The old CONSIDER, for Instance, Edwardian, tradition In dancing was some of the dance successes smashed on a certain day in 1911 for the past year. "Caravan" and when a young man at a party, Irving "The Merry-go-round Broke Down" Berlin, sat down at a piano and im- succeeded because of their rhythmic provised a tune we now know as value in dancing: "Home Town" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band." A- "The Greatest Mistake of My Life," young English actor who was present, because of their melodies: "Moon at Vernon Castle, and his wife, Irene, turned, but only for of their sentiment; and "They're days, were utterly scandalising..
(Continued on Page 5.) Tough, Mighty Tough in the West,"
THE "VERY IDEA"
the past several weeks, with the world to-day bent upon MANY wives have re- Sea" and "Little Old Lady," because made up some steps which, for those rumours scorching around the deliberate misunderstanding? world almost daily, flowering Whatever the case may be and economic reasons, because the darkly in the press of every this is no accusation-the whole feeling of uncertainty that exists continent, the mass of the people crisis over naval building so far in Shanghai does not help to has become alarmed. Slowly as these four great nations are make life happy or easy. but surely the nations have concerned, seems to have arisen It has been a strange life in allowed the situation to develop, out of an article published in an Shanghai in recent months. One or it has developed in spite of Italian newspaper to the effect
boundaries and sce the two them, to a point where naval as that Japan was probably build could go up to the Settlement well as military armaments are ing battleships above anything opposing sides fighting cach being piled ton by ton in pre-planned by powers signatory to other throwing hand-grenades Sober the new London Treaty. The and machine-gunning and snip paration for what? people to-day are asking them three western nations, rightly or ing. selves that question. And why, wrongly, demanded that Japan The Chinese appeared philo- ALL these London and
if, as they declare, the nations reveal her intentions.
NOW,
no
They
A
RUNNING OUR HEAD INTO A NOOSE
By Eddie "Beaverbrook" Kelly.
Jast:
the There was quite a scene time we burst into his room.
"See here, Monty", we said. this half-a-crown American war corres-"About
deposited with your—”
cam-
A scarred old newspaper
"Stop Press" Kelly they called us. We used to press and the agirls yelled "Stop."
we've
He wouldn't let us finish. Had us. thrown out into Threadneedle Street. Probably feared we wanted to withdraw our money.
"President Roosevelt was alwaya pestering us to interview him at the White House, but we told him he'd
he wanted his name in our paper. have to come across to London if Too many bad presidents are. created by foumalists: pandering to these lesser fry." SKITE ABOUT SKY TRAVEL We were the only reporter to go with the first aeroplane from Eng- land to Australia. It travelled in a crate on the steamer in which we were a passonger.
I saw them shelled sophical. do not want war, do they not succeeded, deliberately or not, in and killed, but for them the
excuse for do something to prevent this giving Tokyo an
alternative of life or death seem-pondents cluttering up the mounting rivalry, and all the indignant refusal to reveal a
place reminds us that we antagonism and fear it breeds? single thing. It is not suggested to mean little.
The Japanese fight with great
once an old There have been months in cd that Japan is not taking an which to plan and act unreasonable attitude, in view fury, with all the spirit of were diplomatically in order that of the gravity of the situation Bushido [their code of bravery), paigner. the situation might be eased. which may result; but it is an and with a conviction that it is Every pacifying effort, up to undeniable fact that, knowing well to be killed for the Emperor. In the midst of the gloom you has been
abortive, the people with whom they had Whether any power has serious to deal, the Governments of come upon many amusing incid-Veteran, we were, and if the ly endeavoured to find a way out Great Britain, the United States lents and incongrulties. It was linotypist doesn't set that been well strange to go to a Japanese word "scarred" with two of the senseless muddle, apart and France had
to have approached party and be waited on by from extrleating itself from advised any association with responsibl- Tokyo with all the formality and Chinese boys. It was stranger "r's" we'll complain to the lity, historians may be able to friendliness of which they are still to see, after the Chinese reEditor.
capable, leaving possible treat from Shangbai, a Japanese disclose.
Looking at it broadly it chance for offence and for the platoon advancing in rickshas would appear that blame for rejoinder that their request for drawn by Chineso coolies.
Shanghai, remember, is the impasse is fairly equally information sounded like distributed. Of course there threat to these sensitive people. trinity, for although in a sense have been treaties broken; and It is not auggested, either, there is only the city, there are that is indefensible, though the that western nations should go three entities governed independ- treaty-breakers argue, perhaps crawling to Tokyo for informa-ently yet depending largely on logically, that they were not at tion on naval construction. But one another for their welfare fault; that circumstances gave since all parties protest that they and prosperity. them no alternative but to dis want some form of control, even The three municipalities which regard the pacts their statesmen disarmament, it might pay to go to make up Shanghal consist had signed in years past-pacts spend a few hours and a few of the International Settlement, which were shameful and unjust million pounds in talks upon the French Concession, and the and which prevented their ways and means of restricting Chinese City.
The International Settlement, natural expansion, That is a building, and preventing com- matter which it would be point-petition that will lead either to which comprises the former with the Archbishop of Canterbury, less to discuss at this juncture, bankruptcy, revolution or war British and American Con- because of the nasty insinuations have succeeded to some extent. It matters not one fot who is to or all of them. When it Is con- cession, is ruled by a council of that followed our last visit to his blame for the present epidemicsidered what immense sums the Americans, British, Japaness cathedral. In any case, the poor box didn't contain Bs. 0d-it had of fear that is abroad. What world is, investing for security, and Chinese, who are responsible only in.. 1140 two buttons and a does mattor that to fow are would it not be sound sense to for everything from public chipped menocis. making any faithful attempt to gamble a little on peace, and try health to defence. combat it. NOENEN not to think, of every other The defence is carried out The recent exchange of notes nation in terms of man-power, by representatives of all the between the United States, Great Auns and naval- tonnage? nationalities living in the settle
(Continued on Page 5.) Britain and France on the ona Reason would have it so,
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We remember, during the war We have been unsuccessful so far being sent to interview Halg. We In our efforts to Interview Stalin. found him a dual personality He keeps putting us off. We sus- Halg and Halg.
pect,ho is Stalin for time.
We are sorry to any that jour- We got our greatest kick out of nalism has degenerated since Interviewing Mussolini. Ha kicked left its ranks. Men like Vernon the Bartlett, Karl von Wiegan, Monson us down the front steps of
and John Gunther have struggled Colosseum.
desperately to maintain the level wo created, and by dint of slaving night and day at their typewriters, suck Wo never printed our Interviewing for hours at their fountain pens, together with the aid of a miracle,
we would never We swore Colosseum again.
IT WASN'T OUR VAULT Sir Montagub Norman, the Gaver not of the Bank of England, was always a hard man to Intervlow.
But the old spirit is lacking. You can't do much good with this post-war stuff.
They will never attain the heights we attained with the Timea. We well remember, on the day before we retired, selling no loss than 78 copies of the Grand Old Paper of Fleet Street on our stand under- nonth Nelson's-Monument
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